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Irva vs Irvin

American parents have registered 39,997 Irvins since 1880, against 229 Irvas. Irvin is still ahead, with 80 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Irva against Irvin, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Irva Irvin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Irvin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1899, when Irva had 19 and Irvin had 73.

Side by side

  Irva Irvin
Total US births 22939,997
Most in one year 19826
Babies in 2025 under 580
Estimated living today 3017,000
Median age today 8137
Peak year 18991923
Best rank 728th girls173rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,932nd
First recorded 18991880
Girls / boys 229 / 075 / 39,922

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Irvas alive today are over 81; half the Irvins are over 37. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Irva and Irvin.